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Originally Posted by YuriTokoro
I see.
What about this? If some people say one of your family members has achieved some great things. What would you say?
Japanese people would say, “Not really”, or “It’s not that great.”
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Maybe I would just shrug my shoulders. It's hard to explain, but as I grow older, I see actions as they occur in the present. They are separate from what others describe in the future.
Perhaps to make it clearer, I recall how I felt when I wrote stories in the past (mainly fan fictions based on the Diablo computer game or later stories based in Dungeons & Dragons). I would write these stories concerned mainly on keeping the sentences readable and the visual imagery uncomplicated. People would read these stories and tell me how much they appreciated them, but to me they were just stories I told that I would like to read. Years later when I would read these stories, it was hard to believe that I wrote them and not someone else.
Not in the slightest, Yuri. I brought it up mainly as a example of a well-known manga/anime in the Western world. It was my intention to say that a large amount of teens who would read this manga have an incorrect idea of Japanese culture. They would take this fantasy setting and believe it to be reality, which is untrue.